Beekeeping

Bee cycle – Bee activity through the year

December 27, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Honey Bee Activity Cycle – Yearly

For beekeepers a normal bee year is from september till august the following year. I tried to make a short overview for myself. This calendar is based on the climate in the netherlands. I live near amsterdam so if you check a map of the earth you can see we have a tempered climate. A beekeeping season for someone who lives in a tropical climate is different than somebody who lives in norhtern europe. But nonetheless you can get a image on how the hive behaves during a year. [Read more…] about Bee cycle – Bee activity through the year

Swarming of Honey bees – Everything you must know!

December 26, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Swarming

In nature the bees regulate swarming themselves. The time of swarming depends in what state the bees come through the winter. If the hive contains enough bees they are very likely to swarm earlier than a small hive. The hive needs to get stronger. After the hive regained its strength it is ready to ’swarm’. [Read more…] about Swarming of Honey bees – Everything you must know!

Worker Bee – From Egg to Foraging Bee

December 25, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Worker bees can not lay eggs and are smaller than the queen. It is the smallest hive inhabitant, but with all her sisters it is the main driving force in the functioning of the hive. [Read more…] about Worker Bee – From Egg to Foraging Bee

Principles to become a Good Beekeeper

December 25, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Beekeeping can be very easy. The majority of the work is done by the bees themselves. But as any new beekeeper will soon discover, the inner working of bees is very complex. You start to read into beekeeping and the learning curve is very steep, you devour every book that will come into sight.

My start into Beekeeping

December 25, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Normally when people ask me “how did I get started with beekeeping”, I tell them the short version of “Follow a course, buy some bees and have fun”. But unfortunately it is not that easy. In this post I will give the longer version.

In these series of articles I will write about a more European perspective of beekeeping. Online there is a lot of information to find about the american way of beekeeping. But there is still a little room to tell the story of a beginning dutch beekeeper.